Oleh Lyashko

Oleh Valeriovich Lyashko (3 December 1972-) was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 25 May 2006. Lyashko, a former journalist and member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, went on to found the populist Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.

Biography
Oleh Valeriovich Lyashko was born in Chernihiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1972, and he worked as a shepherd during the 1980s before becoming a journalist during the 1990s. In 2006, the distinguished journalist was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, but he was expelled in 2010 for cooperating with the majority coalition. In 2011, Lyashko founded the "Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko", a populist party which would, during the Donbass War, seek to punish separatists with the death penalty, introduce a visa regime with Russia, prohibit the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Party of Regions, and called on the European Union to ban the entry of Crimean residents with Russian passports.